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As always, community broadcasters featured strongly in the Governor General's Australia Day Honours List, in addition to various other local community awards announced as part of Australia Day celebrations.

January 26 of each year has many meanings for Australians. First Nations or Aboriginal Australians see the day as our Survival.

Fine Music 102.5 has announced that it has taken up the official broadcast rights to the inaugural Australian Cello Awards which will go to air live from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music from 3pm to 6.30pm on Sunday 30 March 2014.

Radio Survival is a special broadcast on DAB+ Digital Radio, the Community Radio Network and the National Indigenous Radio Network.

CRN congratulates Inside Motorsport on 20 years in production.

Following on in the style of 3ZZZ multi award winning Student Xpress series on international students comes Are We There Yet, a series of 8 radio programs talking with asylum seekers and refugees.

Congratulations to Carol Dowling of Noongar Radio on winning the 2013 Human Rights Award in the radio category. The awards were announced on Tuesday 10 December 2013 as part of a ceremony held at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art.

Over four weeks in December and January, BBC World Service’s Discovery will be embedded with a team of Antarctic researchers on board an ice-breaker retracing the route of the first Australasian Expedition to Antarctica. Available to community stations through CRN in January 2014.

Now is a great time to contact your Federal MP, if you haven't already, to let them know about the work of your station.